Fort Worth weekly gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1887-04-29

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,nthropies, after ali, the merchants must
come forth with their millions to sustain
he movement. Be, therefore, patient
md di,igent IN this transient position.
You are nowswhere you can learn things
7Su can neVst learn in any other place.
~ bat ven consider your disadvantages
are your grand opportunity. You see an
affiuent father some day come down on
prominent street with his son, VINO has
lust CIRCULATED from the university and
establishing him in business, putting
800, 900 of capital in the store. Well,
youare envious. You say: go, if | only
had a chance like that young man-it
only had father to put 100000 IN a
business for me, then | would have some
chance in the world" Be not envious'
You have advantages over that young
man which he has not over you. AS well
might | come down to the docks When
vessel is about to sail for Valparaiso, ana
says LET me pilot this ship out OF the
Narrows." Why would sink crew ana
cargo before 1 got out Of the haroor, SIM
ply because know nothing about pilot
age. Wealthy sea captains put their sohs
before the mast for the reason that they
know that 1t is the only place Wuere they
can learn to be successful sailors. 1t Is
only under drill that people get to under
stand pilOtage and navigation, and l want
Won to understand that it takes no more
skill to conduct a vessel out OFT har-
bOr and across the sea than to steer a
commercial establishment clear OF the
rocks. You see every day the folly
OF people going into business
thew know nothing about. A
man makes a fortune in one business;
thinks there is another occupation
more comfortable; goes into it and sinks
all. Many of the commercial establish
ments Of our cities are giving to their
clerks mercantile education as thorough
as Yale or Hazard or Princeton are CIV
ing scientific attachments to the students
matriculated. The reason there are so many
men laundering in business from year TO
wear is because their early mercantile ed
rCation was neglected. Ask these men
nigh in commercial circles and they Will
tell you they thank.God for this severe dis
cipline of their early clerkship. You can
afford to endure the wilderness march II
it is going to end in the vineyards and
orchards Of the promised land. But you
say. "WilI the WOmanlY clerks in our
stores have promotion ?" Yes; time is
coming when women will be as well paid
fer their toll IN mercantile circles as men
are now paid for their toll. Time is COM
ing when woman will be allowed to 90
ANYTHING she can do well. 1t is only q
little while ago when women knew moth
ing of telegraphy, and they were kept out
of great many commercial circles where
they are now welcome; and the time Will
90 on until the woman who at one cOun-
ter in the store sells $4,000 worth OF
goods in a year viii get as high salary
as the man who st the other counter OF
! the store sells $40 900 worth Of goods
! All honor to Lydia, the Christian saLesWO-
man. AGd, in passing, l may as wei
say tdat you merchants who have W0mer
clerks in YOUR stores ought to treat them
with great courtesy and kindness. When
! they are not positively engaged let tEen
! sfa down. Ia England and the UUi5eC
States physicians have protested agains
the habit of compelling the wOmanlY
clerks in the stores to stand when it wa:
not necessary for them to stand. There
fore, | add to the protest Of physician!
the protest of the Christian church, and II
the name of good health and that God who
has made the WOmanly constitution more
delicate than mans, l demand that yoJ
| let her sit down.
The second counsel | have to give t
! the clerks who are here to-day, is tina
YOU seek out what are the lawful regula
| lions of your establishment and then SUB
nit to them. Every well ordered hOust
has its usages. In military life
on ships deck, in commercial life, ther'
must 3e order and discipline. Those PEG
ple who do not learn how to obey vii
never know how to command. Will tel
YOU what young man will reach ruin, Ii
nauCial and m0ral: il IS the young MAJ
who thrusts his thur into his vest ans
SAYS: "NOb0dy shall dictate 70 me;
am nv own master; | viii not submit t
the regulations OF this house " Betweel
an establishment IN which al the en-
plOyes are under thorough discipline an
the establishment in which the employee
do about as they choose, is the difrTenc
between success and lailure-DetWee
rapid accumulation and utter bank
ruDtCy. Do not come to the store tie
minutes after the time. Be there With
two seconds after. Do not think any
thing too insignificant to do well. Do no
say: "It's only Just once From tn
most important transaction in commerce
down to the particular style in which 20
tie & string around 8 Dundla, obey OF
ders. DO not get easily disguised
, While others in the store may lounge, o
fret, or complain. you 60 with read
/ hands, and cheerful face, and contente
spirit to your work. When the bugl
r sounds, the good soldier asks no ques
lions, but shoulders his knapsack, fill
| his canteen and listens for the COmman
of "march!" Do not get the idea tha
I your interests aud those of your emplOYe
are antagonis,ic. His success will b
t your honor. His embarrassment will b
/ your dismay. Expose none of the frai
ties of the firm. Tell
store secrets. Do not blab. Re
, buff those persons who come
r find out from clerks what ought never
e known outside the store. Do not
among those young men who take on
= mysterious air when something is sal
+ against the firm that employs them, s
= much as to say: 81 could tell you son
r things if l would, but won't" Do NJ
| be among those who imagine they ca
t buila themselves up by pulling somebod
+, else down. Be not ashamed to be
e su0a.teTn.
e Again: l counsel clerks in this hou!
n to search out what are the unlawful al
s dishonest demands of an establishment
+ and resist them. In the 5000 years n
e have passed, there has never been al 0
e casiOn when it was ones duty to s
d against God. 1t is never right TO {
Y wrong. If the head men Of the firm e
pect Of you dishonesty, disappoint rheI
o 49," you say, 81 should lose my p1a
II then" Better lose your place than 10
y you soul. But you will not lose yo
It place Christian heToism is always no
l. ored. You 90 10 the head man OF 20
q store, snd say: Sir, l want TO ser
s you; want to obIige you; it is from
If lack of industry on ny part, but tn
l. thing seems to me to be wrong, and it
e sin against nay conscience, it Is a S
e against God, and i Deg you, sir,
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